Recent content by RayBarbeeMusic

Not really interested in lab results other than as an intellectual curiosity. I AM interested in real world results that players can sense. Again, in the real world, never encountered any drop out between strings on any pickup. Again, the only way to get that is to put something like a Fralin...

Also, RE rails and "Even string balance" - no. Harder, because you can't adjust the proximity of poles under individual strings. I have 0 problems getting even string balance by adjusting pole pieces, even on pickups where I've removed some of the poles, because I adjust the pole heights and...

Sounds like a wiring issue. I currently have about 600 pickups here that aren't installed. 3 digits of guitars with pickups installed. Installed pickups for thousands of people in the 40 years I've been working on guitars. In that time, I have never, not once, ever ever ever, in the 5...

Raise your hand if you've ever experienced "drop outs" between the strings, even with a normal spaced pickup in a trem equiped guitar....... *crickets*. Doesn't exist. The magnetic field is more than wide enough. The only way to get that effect in practice is if you use two coils with...

Making the pole a rail won't change how the bar magnet is charged.

Are they just going for a cosmetic change then? Not sure I see the point.

I assume the winds/wire/mags are the same. What does using rails vs. slugs/fillisters do to the tone?

Guess they don't do that on the site. None of the places I get emails from seem to have anything in stock either.

Have had great luck with A4 rough in either reducing spike on a bright pickup or adding sparkle on a dark one.

Some are, some aren't. even with black, I've seen some of non YFS branded. Supply chain issues?

Should have tried AN in the bridge.

Pole pieces make a very big difference. Removing bloating low end in a signal chain, whether in a pickup or the gain staging in an amp or pedal chain makes a huge difference in tone, feel/touch sensitivity, and "sing" C5 has a huge amount of low end. Short poles fix that. Both C5 and FS are...

No, just bridge. Here's the trick for the full shred neck, same works on jazz neck since it's the same coils. I hate muddy neck buckers, especially the low strings. Both FS and jazz are naturally airy on top, moreso than any other commercially available standard humbucker, so they are the...

Every time I look at an AI summary for research, I realize how profoundly incorrect a lot of it is. Yet people are taking this obviously incorrect information and treating it it like gospel, because some computer puked it out. We are well and truly F'd if that becomes the norm.

YFS are used for the black poles, but if you order gold or nickel, they aren't branded YFS. Full Shred = Custom 5 with 1/2" hex poles. If you actually want PAF EQ, take a custom, put 1/2" fillisters in, or take a full shred and put a ceramic magnet in. The ceramic mag and short poles give...